#race

I love out-of-the-way, rugged places. For me, holidays are about the experiences, and the people, and the memories, rather than sitting on a nice beach getting tanned. I try to plant myself where I am and embrace what is there in front of me. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#am #beach #embrace #experiences #front

No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money. ↗

— Samuel Gompers

#children #ever #existed #money #offered

Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation. ↗

— Samuel Gompers

#dead #devoted #labor #labor day #living

A calling is you feel - you look out and see the need - maybe it's the need for the poor, to help poor people. Maybe it's the need to get involved in the race problem, as Martin Luther King was - felt called. ↗

— Billy Graham

#calling #feel #felt #get #help

There's always a race against time. I don't think for one moment that life gets better. How can it? One's body starts to fall apart. ↗

— Gloria Grahame

#always #apart #better #body #fall

You have to know this: running a 100m race is an intense experience. You have a lot of emotion at the end of the race. It is not easy to control that when you win. ↗

— Maurice Greene

#easy #emotion #end #experience #intense

It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task. ↗

— Virgil

#air #back #climb #dark #day

The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in. ↗

— Stephen Vizinczey

#ignorance #our #race #scientific #survived

Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#context #cultural #distinctly #ethnic #gender

I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#attitudes #away #beauty #because #certain